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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1020226000221.20055B-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com> By author: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Matthias Andree wrote: > > > I'd think that running a script to "upgrade" 2.4.N-rcM to 2.4.N by just > > unpacking that latest rc tarball, editing the Makefile and tarring > > things up again, should be safe enough, and if it doesn't allow for > > operator interference, especially so. > > Seems to me: > - clean EXTRAVERSION > - make new diff > - make tar (one please) > - make tar.gz from tar > - compress tar to tar.bz2 > For what it's worth, I have written such a script and made it available on master.kernel.org. The kernel maintainers have been sent directions; it's of course up to them if they want to use it. -hpa -- <hpa@transmeta.com> at work, <hpa@zytor.com> in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt <amsp@zytor.com> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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